||IF's Tribute to the Legend Rabindranath Tagore||

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Prolific playwright,novelist, and poet, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature (1861-1941). We owe Tagore a debt ofgratitude for the bridges he built between Indianand Western cultures.Rabindranath Tagore's compassion ran deep andpermeated his writing. Today is his birthday! So this thread is a tribute to the legendary poet of India. Let's celebrate together!Within the short span offive years, his wife, son,and daughter died. Rather than becoming bitter,Tagore turned his sorrow into tenderly poignant mystical poems. In 1891,he went to manage his father's estate, living close to villagers and developing sympathy for them which became the keynote for later writings.Although he was awardedthe knighthood in 1915,he surrendered it four years later to protest the British massacre ofIndians. In "Mind Without Fear," Tagore shares his dream of a world that's not been "broken up intofragments by narrowdomestic walls:"Where the mind iswithout fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free; Where the world has notbeen broken up intofragments by narrowdomestic walls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towardsperfection;Where the clear stream ofreason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action --Into that heaven offreedom, my Father, let my country awake.According to the Bengali calendar, the date of Tagore's birth is 25th Baisakh, 1268. It is uncertain where this date falls on the Gregorian calendar, May 8 being oneof the possibilities. Shuvo Jonmodin Kobiguru Rabindranath Tagore!Shuvo Jonmodin! India-Forums er pokkho hote Kobir proti Sroddhanjoli.

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Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941)He was the youngest son of DebendranathTagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect innineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimatemonistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He waseducated at home; and although at seventeen hewas sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there.In his mature years, inaddition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the familyestates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increasedhis interest in socialreforms. He also started anexperimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. Fromtime to time heparticipated in the Indian nationalist movement,though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modernIndia, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies inIndia.Tagore had early success as a writer in his nativeBengal. With histranslations of some of his poems he became rapidlyknown in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents onlecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice ofIndia's spiritual heritage;and for India, especiallyfor Bengal, he became a great living institution. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all apoet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The IdealOne], Sonar Tari (1894)[The Golden Boat],Gitanjali (1910) [SongOfferings], Gitimalya(1914) [Wreath of Songs],and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]. TheEnglish renderings of his poetry, which include TheGardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and TheFugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali:Song Offerings (1912), themost acclaimed of them,contains poems from other works besides its namesake. Tagore's majorplays are Raja (1910) [TheKing of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The PostOffice], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable],Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], andRaktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of several volumesof short stories and anumber of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929)[Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musicaldramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore alsoleft numerous drawings and paintings, and songsfor which he wrote the music himself.Rabindranath Tagore diedon August 7, 1941.

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